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Hey everyone! My second card for today, and also the second one for the Play Date Cafe Challenge, so if you want to see my first one please click over here 🙂

This handmade card I also thought to ‘target’ towards guys, from young boys to boy friends or boyfriends, to husbands, to dads and grand dads! It’s blue and yet has a bright yellow to it, which I like.. Masculine cards don’t always have to be dull colours, right? 😀

Tip: Don’t have matching buttons for the colours you are using? I have a tip that I just made up today LOL! First, you need a Copic marker (or any other permanent market) that matchs or coordinates with the ink colour, a white/cream button, clear embossing powder (fine grain!) and a heat gun.

1. Colour button with marker, if it has grooves/designs you don’t have to get into all the nooks and crannies.
2. Allow to dry for, in my case, like 20 seconds because I have no patience LOL – I found that with Copics, even after it has dried, it still feels tacky on the button; I suppose it’s because it’s not made really for colouring on plastic.
3. Dump button into the clear embossing powder and make sure the top and sides of button are covered with the powder. Tackiness from the Copics will let the embossing powder stick.
4. Pick up button from embossing powder container with some tweezers and put it on a heat-safe surface, using the tip of tweezer to make sure button won’t fly around while being heated (believe me, it will!).
5. Blast it until all powder melts but don’t overdo it. Beware: button will be VERY HOT so leave it to cool first before working with it
6. Tadah!! Buttons coloured to your choice and all sealed in!

Hello! Today I made a card based on this colour combination at The Play Date Cafe. Initially I wasn’t going to give it a go because I realised I don’t have any more cardstock in that sunny yellow/orangey colour, but then I remembered I do have inks in that colour! Woohoo!

Decided to make it a card geared towards guys/boys, too!

Tip: I created that scallop by cutting a border die cut in half, length-wise. The die originally looked like this:

So go and check out your border dies/punches and see if any of them would be totally changed up if you cut them in half!

I’m feeling the inspiration for this challenge! So I made another card 🙂

The colours are a little weird…. The sun is playing hide and seek!

A little foam tape to make the little rose from Papertrey Ink’s Rosie Posie set pop off the page and give a little dimension! 🙂 The kraft is stamped with Market Street Stamps Honeycomb background stamp.

With kraft coloured jute string, I tied a little bow finished with a Tiny Tag from PTI.

As always, thank you for visiting me! I love comments and if you leave your blog URL I’ll be sure to visit! xx Stephinka

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Hello! My name is Stephanie, but Stephinka is my nickname so you can call me that too. I am a 23 year old SAHM to my puppy ;) No, really I am just a SAH because of poor health. Crafting has been helping me to relieve the stresses, allows me to still keep busy and use my creativity to make something tangible. Read more about me in my About page!
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